Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1906 Auburn Tigers football team

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep. JERRY talk contribs 03:15, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 1906 Auburn Tigers football team

1906 Auburn Tigers football team (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

There is no context for this article, just a listing of the games. There are no sources given at all. Nothing here seems worthy of a stand-alone article. Metros (talk) 01:49, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete - Wikipedia is not a collection of lists. Macy's123 (review me) 01:52, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment - Seems to be a university football team. I understand that in the US college sports are considered more important than they are in other countries. The 1892 through 1921 teams have similar articles. They should either all be kept or all deleted, unless one or two years have some specific notability. Pburka (talk) 03:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete: article fails WP:N and WP:NOT. Agree with Pburka that other similar articles should be deleted. Mh29255 (talk) 06:26, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete: Well, I would say to keep it, but it is short and does not contain references other than it's own website. ― LADY GALAXY 16:21, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Major college program season article. Per WP:SUMMARY; articles may be split off of a parent article when and if their inclusion would make the parent article unreasonably long. See Auburn Tigers football team. This is clearly an appropriate application of summary style. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 17:01, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. Major college sports in the U.S. are notable, and a season summary article is appropriate to record team coaches, roster, results, and any commentary. These sorts of articles should be encouraged rather than discouraged. Does not fail WP:N or WP:NOT. Sources beyond the website are available as college sports are extensively covered in U.S. newspapers. Quale (talk) 20:11, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Part of series on history of football and history of this college Fg2 (talk) 01:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Part of Wikipedia:WikiProject College football Seancp (talk) 03:45, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Also, this has already been resolved in a previous discussion and does not need to be debated again. See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1902 LSU Tigers football team Seancp (talk) 03:47, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
ALSO, the more I think about it, this more this nomination bothers me. The Wikipedia:Deletion policy states, "If the page can be improved, this should be solved through regular editing, rather than deletion. A variety of tags can be added to articles to note the problem." There is no doubt that the article in question is deficient, but that means it needs to be improved, not deleted. One other option is to merge the articles like we did with LSU Tigers football, 1900-1909. Seancp (talk) 04:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep or redirect/merge per Seancp. This has already been discussed before. WP:CFB developed a method for articles such as this which should be used. At the least, this article is still valid. MECU≈talk 14:17, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.